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Monday, January 28, 2008

Super Bowl week!


Go Giants!!!

The NY/Boston feud continues with the Giants vs. Pat's.

http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/

Colin Beavan a.k.a. No Impact Man, also continues his feud with Michael Shellenberger, author of "Break Through: The Death of Environmentalism and the Politics of Possibility." The core of the argument is whether positive change for the environment will come from policy/grand scale change OR personal sacrifice and lifestyle changes. Beavan walks/bikes to work and has lived greenly without electricity, ate local, etc. in New York City for a year. He has improved his health and claims that he is in fact happier than prior to begining the experiment. Shellenberger (I've read less of his work) states there needs to be a global shift in attitude towards greeness from industry and government and disagrees with the 'holier-than-thou' stance by hard-core environmentalists. Both offer intelligent arguments and are posting their email exchange on their blogs.